President Trump has deployed the National Guard in Washington, D.C., as part of a crime-fighting initiative. Maryland Governor Wes Moore, in an interview with Jen Psaki said, "I will not authorize the usage of the Maryland National Guard for any mission that I do not deem to be mission critical or mission aligned.

Over the weekend the Lost Cause finally got redemption: The governor of South Carolina announced that he is sending his state’s National Guard troops to Washington, D.C., to aid President Trump’s military occupation of the city. 1 And so, 160 years later, soldiers from a Confederate state will walk the streets of the U.S. capital as conquerors. 2